Mr Googler
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Will soon find out ??
Steel boat build - Almarine 1200fa
- Thread starter JOHNPEET
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Boathook
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Be interesting to see the 'build quality' of the ballast ingots and how they just slot in, etc.
Bouba
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I expect the ballast to be machined, polished and two pack painted ?
Mr Googler
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I’ve had a premonition!
In tonight’s update….how I made my own upholstery by rearing some sheep, building a loom and making my own fabric.
To follow….how I cast my own anchor
In tonight’s update….how I made my own upholstery by rearing some sheep, building a loom and making my own fabric.
To follow….how I cast my own anchor
JOHNPEET
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?? I made a batch of lead weights for use when I laid the decking, so these will have first call on any need for trim ballast!
I now feel like I’ve let you down though as they don’t slot together - I may have to recast them! ??
Bouba
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I’m a bit shocked to be honest ? ....we were only kidding about the ballast....you are not a man to be taken lightly...
JOHNPEET
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Seat boxes for the aft deck and fly bridge!
So I chose to make my own seat boxes for a couple of reasons - I had plans to house some equipment in a couple of the boxes and so they needed to be sealed to the decks so that services could be routed into the boxes and not have any issues with leaks to below. The fly bridge deck and aft decks are curved so the seat boxes needed to follow the same profile. The second reason was that the few options available on the marketplace are just ridiculously expensive!
The seat box on the aft deck on the starboard side houses the gas cylinders and associated equipment. The rear most seat base on the fly bridge houses the ventilation outlet for the aft cabin shower extract and also an engine space extract fan which will be used when the generator is running but no main engines - just had some concern about the temp in the engine space with the generator running.
The boxes bases were laid up in two stages - first stage was to produce a box with no base, then scribe the profile of the deck curvature and cut. Second stage was to layup the bottom of the base into the box once cut.
So I chose to make my own seat boxes for a couple of reasons - I had plans to house some equipment in a couple of the boxes and so they needed to be sealed to the decks so that services could be routed into the boxes and not have any issues with leaks to below. The fly bridge deck and aft decks are curved so the seat boxes needed to follow the same profile. The second reason was that the few options available on the marketplace are just ridiculously expensive!
The seat box on the aft deck on the starboard side houses the gas cylinders and associated equipment. The rear most seat base on the fly bridge houses the ventilation outlet for the aft cabin shower extract and also an engine space extract fan which will be used when the generator is running but no main engines - just had some concern about the temp in the engine space with the generator running.
The boxes bases were laid up in two stages - first stage was to produce a box with no base, then scribe the profile of the deck curvature and cut. Second stage was to layup the bottom of the base into the box once cut.
Bouba
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Incredible....the forum is running out of superlatives...
JOHNPEET
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JOHNPEET
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I confess! I bought the seats! ??
Bouba
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We realized that...they are not up to your usual standard?
Hurricane
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Greg2
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Steel, welding, carpentry, plumbing, electrics and now we have fibreglass mouldings to perfection!
There is only so much a man can take! ?
There is only so much a man can take! ?
JOHNPEET
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Ah yes! I had a good teacher! ??
Hurricane
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I doubt that you needed any teaching.
Elessar
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We don’t know if he knows how to drive a boat ?
Hurricane
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That's the easy bit
SpottyDog5
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Who cares ? he can fix it , if it all goes wrong.
Fr J Hackett
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I am wondering how long the build took.
Bouba
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Perfection takes time...I for one am not looking at this as a boat build or even as a finished product...if a craftsman goes to work each day and produces fine work then that is the story in itself...even if it takes forty years and he doesn’t have a finished product...ie it’s the journey not the destination
